Blue Yonder SVP of Generative AI Chris Burchett makes the engineering case for owned intelligence - and doesn't shy away from telling customers what the road to the autonomous supply chain actually involves.
Conagra's supply chain transformation with Blue Yonder has taken the food giant from planners manually overriding the system 50-60% of the time to a 95% no-touch production plan, delivering 98% service levels and a 13% inventory reduction - with micro-agents next on the roadmap.
Blue Yonder CEO Duncan Angove is being more honest than most enterprise software vendor CEOs out there - an approach that will likely resonate well with customers.
Knauf's Chief Supply Chain Officer Dr. Martin Brown explains how the building materials giant is using Blue Yonder's cognitive planning solutions to work towards an ambitious target of 80 per cent touchless order management - and why getting the data and the people right matters more than the technology itself.
Blue Yonder's ICON 2026 day two delivered a raft of product announcements - including cognitive solutions for category management and production planning - but the more compelling story was the customers on stage starting to show real results from the platform investment.
Blue Yonder CEO Duncan Angove used ICON 2026 to announce a manifesto commitment to automating the software implementation lifecycle itself - signaling that Blue Yonder's ambition goes beyond selling customers new technology and extends to changing how they operate entirely.
Blue Yonder has partnered with NVIDIA to build a Model Training Factory on Nemotron open-source models, as CEO Duncan Angove makes the case that supply chain AI demands owned, domain-trained intelligence rather than dependency on costly and imprecise frontier models.
